History YMMV / TheLastLegion

* WTHCastingAgency: [[Creator/BenKingsley Gandhi]] playing Merlin. However, given Ben Kingsley's ambiguous features and Shakespearean background, you can forget about any questionable casting and be in awe of Ben Kingsley's pure awesomeness as none other than the wizard of wizards himself.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: There's something utterly adorable about the absolute wonder in Aurelius' eyes as [[spoiler:Mira comes to join him in bed the night before the final battle]].

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilOverlord Vortgyn]] is a brutal warlord and Ambrosinus's ArchEnemy. Desiring the sword of Caesar, Vortgyn scarred Ambrosinus with his medallion when he wouldn't tell him its whereabouts. Decades later, Vortgyn now terrorizes Britannia, [[RapePillageAndBurn wiping out villages and killing dozens of innocents]]. Allying himself with the Goths, Vortgyn threatens a village harboring Ambrosinus and a young Romulus, killing the blacksmith's family, [[WouldHurtAChild including his children]]. Vortgyn then sends his army to wipe out everyone at Hadrian's Wall. In the bloodshed that ensues, Vortgyn tries to kill Ambrosinus moments before suffering a fiery demise. Ruthless and tyrannical, Vortgyn desired nothing but power and the annihilation of anyone who resisted him.

* NarmCharm: While not being [[SoBadItsGood explicitly bad,]] the film is extremely [[ClicheStorm cliché]] and pretty silly altogether. Having said that, its heavy dose of RuleOfCool, all the names in the cast and [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously the serious effort by those]] make it a good choice for a lone evening timekiller.

* {{Narm}}: Aurelius's war cry about being "Roman soldiers with Roman swords" is a tad silly by itself, but even more if we know that Roman swords were always models borrowed from other cultures: their first one was the Greek ''xiphos'', the second and most famous was the Spanish ''gladius'', and the third one, which Aurelius and the rest use, was the Celtic ''spatha''.

* WTHCastingAgency: [[Creator/BenKingsley Gandhi]] playing Merlin. However given Ben Kingsley's Shakespearean background you forget about any questionable casting and are in awe of Ben Kingsley's pure awesomeness as none other than the wizard of wizards himself!

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ben Kingsley as Ambrosinus/Merlin, Kevin [=McKidd=] as Wulfila, John Hannah as Nestor, Ian Glen as Orestes, Nonso Anozie as Batiatus, Owen Teale as Vatrenus, Robert Pugh as Kustenin and Ferdinand Kingsley as Young Ambrosinus.

* {{Narm}}: Aurelius's war cry about being "Roman soldiers with Roman swords" is a tad silly by itself, but even more if we know that Roman swords were always models borrowed from other cultures: their first one was the Greek xiphos, the second and most famous was the Spanish gladius, and the third one, which Aurelius and the rest use, was the Celtic spatha.

* AwesomeMusic.AwesomeMusic: Whatever opinion you have of the movie, its musical score is definitely great. Especially the main theme.
%%* ClicheStorm: Definitely right up there, what with the ActionGirl [[AllAmazonsWantHercules pairing off with the]] ''deliberately mentioned'' single lead, the boy they'd adopted turning out to be King Arthur's ancestor, among other things.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The novel did send well in Italy when it came out, but the film is most known worldwide.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The novel did send well in Italy when it came out, but the film is most know worldwide.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is adaptation of an almost forgotten Italian novel.

* ClicheStorm: Definitely right up there, what with the ActionGirl [[AllAmazonsWantHercules pairing off with the]] ''deliberately mentioned'' single lead, the boy they'd adopted turning out to be King Arthur's ancestor, among other things.